If you have come to listen to a man who it is thought transmits wisdom, you have mistaken your way...

...for true wisdom is not communicated through books or speeches—true wisdom is found in the depths of your consciousness, just as true love is found in the depths of your heart. If you have come at the urging of slanderers and hypocrites to listen to this man so that what you hear today may later be used against him, you have mistaken your way, because this man has not come here to ask anything of you or to use you, because he does not need you.


Silo, Public Talk, the Healing of Suffering, Punta de Vacas, May 4, 1969